How high will Brett's streak go?

You have to look at the past in order to predict the future. A lot of people don't like that standard; they'd rather go by something a little more solid and present tense, or perhaps they're of the mind that people and things ultimately change. But until Favre actually doesn't make a start in the NFL, you have to assume he's going to start every game. You have to. How could you not? Once every generation or so we're blessed as fans to run across these seemingly impermeable athletes, whose very presence on the field of play suggests some stalwart, other worldly ability to ward off harm as if they wield a lightning bolt straight from Zeus. The truth: they all take their licks, Favre especially. Brett's injury list reads like TSA's terror watch list, containing injuries from head to toe. He's far from Olympian when it comes to his body holding up. But his tolerance for pain and his on-field endurance is certainly something to marvel at. Brett's ability to roll with the proverbial punches and play through pain, often triumphantly, is the definition of true grit and is what the NFL is--was, perhaps--all about. Realistically, though, Favre should have called it quits while he was still in Green Bay. An injury-riddled year with Jets, a beating with Minnesota, and now a year where he's getting injured every game - he has to be worried for his future at this point. One day Brett's going to want to hold his grandchildren and he'll find he has the movement range of a rusted Tin Man. One thing for certain: Favre will never need to see the Wizard for a heart. This guy will go down as one of the great quarterbacks--players in general--in the history of the NFL, simply because he refused to quit. That's to be greatly admired by all fans, I think. But I really hope he decides to hang up his helmet. It's not an old man's game. And while 40-something isn't ancient by real-life standards, it's a dinosaur when 23-year-old 300-pounders get paid millions of dollars to murder you.

So much has happened and he's still kept on playing, so I'm with you. I think that his streak is going to keep on going. I don't think he'll play past this season, but I think he'll keep on starting games for the rest of the football season. He'll just do whatever it takes to keep up his record.